German court declares “Do Not Track” to be legally binding

Landgericht Berlin gibt Klage des vzbv gegen die LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company weitgehend statt

1 yr. ago

1 yr. ago

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Next question: How to get the whole EU to take this legal position?
- I could see it happen eventually. Would definitely be the best outcome for this whole consent banner madness.
Well, let's see how tue whole IT world weasels out of this one.
- "oh we can't possibly understand that field, as there is no agreed industry standard for how to treat it" - Get out, you know exactly what it means.
  
  Bein forced to accept this would make their whole dark pattern cookie bullshit useless, sooooo
- It’ll be interesting for sure! Specifically the big tech companies (looking at you Meta, Google, Microsoft)
Title in English, article in German… not great.
- Yeah, true. But maybe the perfect time to try the new translation feature in Firefox? ^__
  
  I don’t like or trust software translation. It’s often clunky, feels unnatural, and misses important nuance.
Good luck enforcing it.
Kinda makes me want to move to Germany...
The title is misleading. The article only talks about LinkedIn.
- It's called legal precedence.
Hell yes!

Now if only this type of ruling would happen everywhere.

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